Vincent OGEMBO

Vincent Ogembo is a Kenyan by birth and is a Water Resource Engineer including Climate Science. He is a Postdoctoral research fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussels pursuing research project titled "Hydroclimatic Modeling of Lake Victoria." His areas of interests include Water Resources, Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Modeling, Climate Change and Land Use Land Cover Analysis. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Water & Environmental Engineering at JKUAT, Kenya (2015), graduated with MSc. Water Engineering including Climate Change at PAUWES, Algeria and Germany (2018), and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Planning Water Resources at JOOUST, Kenya (2024). He was appointed by the Kenyan Government (Lake Basin Development Authority, LBDA) as the deputy director in charge of planning, research and strategy (2020). In this capacity, he coordinated research work in the Kenyan Lake Victoria basin in partnership with other organizations and partners. He has served as Adjunct Lecturer at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology in the School of Engineering and School of Spatial Planning and Natural Resource Management (2018-2024). In his research experiences, he conducted hydrological Modeling, Climate Change Modeling, Rainwater Harvesting Technologies, Land Use Land Cover Analysis and Spectral Reflectance of water bodies.